• Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    1 year ago

    I’ll start: The Stars Wars postlogy was such a disastrous cash grab that it doesn’t exist in my head cannon.

    This whole thing was a mess.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think I’m still in kinda disbelief that that happened. Like, maybe don’t take me too seriously, but the true sign that the world is going to shit was right there with The Force Awakens. When Star Wars devolved to a totally fluffed up cash grab that we all ate up, that was the sign that we’d lost the plot.

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            1 year ago

            Jedi and Empire were written specifically around driving toy sales. And the reason we waited for 20 years for the prequels was because Lucas wanted the toy contracts to run out so he could get a bigger slice. Story took a back seat to merchandise from the very beginning. The man practically invented selling out.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      What if the Jedi returned… and then were wiped out off-camera? And the Republic returns, and is blown up by a single big boom boom blast? galaxy-brain What if everything is reset because Abrams bashes other people’s toys together while making explosion sounds until they break? so-true